By Staff
May 30th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
2024-25 Board of Directors
Chair: Randall Smallbone, Smallbone Consulting
Vice Chair: Shafiq Mohamed, Stratus Building Solutions – Fully Promoted Burlington
Second Vice Chair: April-Dawn Blackwell, PhD Candidate
Director of Finance: Ravi Dhaliwal, Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)
Directors:
Joseph Apps, Joe Apps Technology Support
Shaheryar Mian, LJM Developments Inc.
Kristina Shea, BlueSkys Life + Beauty’
Laura Barbisan, Leadership Design Studios
Sid Sabbella, Scotiabank
Nassira El Hadri, Hadri Law Professional Corporation
Rick Goldring, Goldring Financial Leadership Inc.
Nice to see a woman as the second vice chair and nice to see Rick Goldring getting involved.
What would also be nice is a shift away from the drive to increase the membership and more time spent on services to the membership.
The numbers are important but if all you have is a lot of new members that are being poorly served what’s the point?
As a former Chamber and Board member the composition of this new Board isn’t inspiring.
Where are the manufacturers? Where are the retailers? Where are the food distributors, lawn care companies, cleaners, wholesalers, janitorial services, HVAC providers, etc.? I guess the occupational and industry sector components didn’t factor into the DEI index.
When you like at who is not represented it provides a clue as to why the Chamber is utterly irrelevant, and is likely destined to remain so.